Bodo Albrecht von Stockhausen

Bodo Albrecht von Stockhausen (30 March 1810 - 29 December 1885) was a German diplomat and nobleman of the Kingdom of Hanover, serving as its ambassador to France (1841–51), Austria (1852–65), and Prussia (1865–66).

Biography
Bodo Albrecht von Stockhausen hailed from a prominent Saxon noble family of Stockhausen and was born on Gottingen. He grew up with a musical education and became a piano player for a time, but later ended up joining the Hanoverian diplomatic service and first worked as the legation secretary in Berlin, Prussia. In 1835 he was appointed attache at the Royal Hanoverian embassy in Paris, France, serving there under the ambassador Count Adolf von Kielmannsegg. He got married while he was serving in France. When Kielmannsegg was reassigned as the ambassador in London, Stockhausen replaced him as the Hanoverian envoy in Paris until 1851. He later served as the ambassador in Vienna, Austria, until being reassigned to Berlin as the Hanoverian envoy in 1865. Stockhausen held the position for barely a year before the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War (1866). Afterwards he lost all of his titles and office, living in Dresden, Florence, and Paris, and occasionally visiting the Hanoverian royal family in Gmunden, where they lived in exile.